Kelly and I will be celebrating Independence Day with a house warming 4th of July Party at our home with our family and friends. I will be cooking a bunch of hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill (memories of my days at Mc. Donalds!) Remember the freedoms we have are because of those that have fought so bravely for us to be able to celebrate them.
We wish you, your family, and friends a happy and safe 4th of July.
Wow, talk about a cool links week. I got so much stuff to share it’s going to take me all night to write this post! First off let’s start with my picture of the week.
Space Shuttle - 747 Mount
So it was a really busy week for links I added a new tool to assist me in collecting everything I want to share. Hopefully someone is reading this and finding something worthwhile, other then my wife Kelly (hi sweetie).
They have found what was killing off honey bees! Very cool that they have found the cause and the cure for the honey bee population, this is a very big deal. Bees might scare people but they are very important to our lives and the ecosystem. I haven’t used this yet since I haven’t gone on a trip recently but if you need help packing you might want to check out Packwhiz, which helps you figure out what to take for the type and length of trip.
If you use Netflix to get your movie fix like we do then check out FeedFlix which will aggregate all your NetFlix data and tell you how much you really are paying for that 3 movie subscription that you only use 2-3 times a month! Just check out mine, we slacked for a number of months because of our move so now it’s time to play catch up. I found out about Feedflix via Leo Leporte at TWiT.
If you are into Twitter, then check out Tweeting Too Hard, a website all about people that appear to be trying to hard on their Twittering (hopefully I’m not on there!), I suggest you check out the All-time Top. I found this link courtesy of Net@Night one of my favorite podcasts to listen to.
Let’s check out some sports stuff from around the internet. The tennis community is all a buzz about a girl that might end up being the next Anna Kournikova, her name is Simona Halep and you can be the judge if she might be the next big bust in tennis. As my close friends can tell you I’ve never really thought Anna was all that the majority of the sports community (read: men) tried to push. There are two new baseball games to check out from the internet, first one is the Massive Multiplayer Online – MMobsaeball, you can play it right through your browser and basically all you do is train your player and the website does the rest. It’s gone through some major growing pains since it’s beta launch 2 days ago, so expect more until they work those out. The next baseball game is Perfect Game 2009, brought to you from the home of text baseball Germany! I don’t know what it is but those Germans love to make baseball simulation games. Lastly if you didn’t get the press release the Lingerie Football League is a GO and kickoff is slated for 09.04.09! Now to just figure out what team I like the most…
Lingerie Football League
A couple tech things I read this week. Windows 7 will have a Virtual Windows XP mode, there was some talk that users would have to have a copy of XP for it to work but that has been denied. This will be a big push to get companies to move up to 7 I think, looking forward to the release (although I have been a big fan of Vista, haven’t had any issues). Talking about Windows, ReactOS which is a operating system built from the ground up to be like Windows but also be open source has reached a milestone with the .3.9 release.
I also have a question to anyone that is still out there reading this, what recent PC game should I buy? I see that Steam has Left 4 Dead priced at only $24 bucks this week and I’m wondering if I should get that or something else like Demigod (the Maximum PC guys have been talking about that on their podcast).
And lastly, videos of the week! I have three to share but only one I will actually post here on the site. The Hunt for Gollum is a Tolkien fan production that looks like it might be pretty good once completed. Check out how huge memory was back in the 50′s with this video of Mercury Delay Line Memory. And lastly I leave you with the funniest thing I’ve watched all week from the Fine Brothers it’s a Lost parody that they make with action figures!
Have a great weekend! I’m on vacation next week so I’m not sure if I will have much to share, but I’ll see what I come up with!
Those of you that know me well, know I love to cook. So on Easter instead of going to breakfast at The Filling Station as we normally do on Sundays, I made my own Eggs Florentine! I jus wish I had the time to make hollandaise sauce because the stuff you can get at the stores isn’t that good, next time I’m going to try and make my own. But here is my creation.
What we have here is English muffin with some butter, a half slice of American cheese, a grilled tomato slice, sautéed spinach, bacon, and hollandaise, almost as good as the one at the Filling Station and I’m sure it would be as good if not better if I had made my own sauce!
Here are some new pictures from the house. We’ve been cleaning, fixing, and painting since the house become ours on the 15th. Here are some pictures of us painting and all the new colors! It’s so nice to have colors after 6 years of white walled apartment living…
Oh and big thanks to EVERYONE that came over this weekend and last to help us, we would be no where near where we are now if it wasn’t for all of you.
We were supposed to have the inspector by today, but the selling Realtor failed to get Edison and the Gas Company to activate the services, so now we have to wait till Tuesday to get the house inspected. My dad and I walked the house today and took down some notes on what we’ll need to fix/clean/work on before we move in next month. There isn’t a whole lot to do, but it needs a bit of work.
Here are some pictures I took today.
So on Sunday we viewed 5 properties in the city of Orange and 5 or 6 in the city of Garden Grove. We really liked the last two properties in Orange, so we asked our Realtor if we could see them again today. After walking through the two houses today we decided to make an offer of a beautiful home located less then 1 mile from the Orange Plaza (Circle)! We’ve absolutely love this area and it was the primary area we were hoping to locate a house in. Now we wait to see if the bank that owns the house decides to accept our offer (the house is a foreclosure). Our Realtor thinks we have a really good chance of getting the house at the price that we offered. I can’t believe we made an offer! I’m still waiting to hear back from the banks on our loan approval, but I’m pretty sure we will get approved, I made a number of calls today and verified with these lenders that our business ownership will not interfere with us getting the loan for the amount that we want!
The house is 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1346 sq/ft on a 9045 sq.ft lot. Here are two pictures I took yesterday while we walked the property.
Front of House
Kitchen in House
So for those that haven’t heard we got a new car. I don’t have any great pictures to show of it yet, I’ll take some this weekend to show it off. We got a 2008 Infiniti G35 Journey Sedan Sport (that’s a mouthful!). The car is just amazing, talk about power, 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, 306 HP, V6 with RWD. I absolutely love the car. In addition to all the power it’s great inside, power leather seats, navigation, XM radio, it even has a back up camera! We are really enjoying it.
In addition to that I was able to get Apple to replace my iPhone due to various issues I was having with it crashing, hopefully this will resolve those issues, so far so good! Kelly has to take a trip up to San Francisco so she will be gone Thursday night till Friday night, I’ll miss her.
Other then that most everything else is good. We went to Oak Glen two weekends ago with all my family (parents, sister, brother in law and kids) and picked apples. We brought them home and Kelly cooked an apple pie, while I BBQ’d for everyone. It was nice all hanging out, I’m hoping we can start doing that more often on my side of the family. I did something to my left shoulder on Sunday morning and it’s been very painful when I extend it forward and do other various movements with it, so I’ve had to pull up lame on softball for awhile. If it still feels the same next week I’ll set up a doctors appointment to get it looked at; but as it is right now, I can’t swing a softball bat.
Work is good, very busy lately, but busy is a good thing, especially in this economy! My cousin Tim is getting married this weekend, I’m really happy for him! Next weekend we are going to see The Who!